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IAPR TC-11 Newsletter
December 2012
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA February 1, 2013
* New and Recently Published Datasets
* Call for Participation:
- OpenHaRT'13 Evaluation and Workshop
* IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 15 Number 4)
* Job Opportunity:
- Post-doctoral position at the University of Nantes, France
* Call for Dataset Submissions
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the December edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition
brings to you the Call for Participation for the OpenHaRT 2013 Evaluation
and Workshop, the current IJDAR Contents Telegram, and a job opportunity
for a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Nantes, France.
I would like to wish you all a quiet and peaceful time during the upcoming
Christmas holidays and all the best for a happy and successful New Year!
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA August 25-28, 2013 February 1, 2013
(http://www.icdar2013.org/)
* ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8, 2013 June 10, 2013
(http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/)
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========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ======================
Name/Source of Dataset: Main Purpose: Published:
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* MSRA 500 Database Text Detection 11/2012
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/MSRA_Text_Detection_500_Database_(MSRA-TD500)
* CROHME Recognition of Online 11/2012
HW Math Expressions
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recognition_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions
* Street View Text Dataset Text detection/ 10/2012
Word spotting
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_Street_View_Text_Dataset
For a list of all datasets available visit:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List
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========== Call for Participation: OpenHaRT'13 Evaluation and Workshop ====
CFP: NIST 2013 Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation (OpenHaRT)
Evaluation and Workshop
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within
the U.S. Department of Commerce, is pleased to announce the second OpenHaRT
evaluation that is to take place in 2013. The OpenHaRT evaluation series aims
to support document analysis research and help advance the state of the art
in document analysis technology through large scale common evaluations. 2013
OpenHaRT will focus on text recognition and translation of document images
contain primarily Arabic handwritten script.
Participants in the evaluation get access to significant training data to
assist their research and development. To learn more about the evaluation,
refer to the evaluation plan posted on the NIST OpenHaRT'13 website at:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/hart2013.cfm.
Some important dates:
+ December 31, 2012: Registration deadline
+ February 15 - 26, 2012: Dry run period
+ March 19 - April 9, 2012: Evaluation period
+ August 23, 2013: Post-evaluation workshop in the Washington DC area (tentative)
Workshop Program Committee:
+ Audrey Tong, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
+ Volker Märgner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
+ Haikal El Abed, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
+ Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK
If you like to receive future updates about OpenHaRT, please consider joining
the NIST OpenHaRT mailing list. Send requests to hart_poc@nist.gov to join.
You can also contact us at the same email if you have any questions.
Please distribute this announcement to those who might be interested in
participating in this evaluation
Best Regards,
Audrey Tong, OpenHaRT'13 coordinator
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========== IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 15 Number 4) ====================
*International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)*.
Volume *15* Number *4* is now available on SpringerLink
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*In this issue:*
Original Paper
*Automatic processing of handwritten bank cheque images: a survey*
R. Jayadevan, S. R. Kolhe, P. M. Patil & U. Pal
Abstract
*Full text PDF
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Original Paper
*A general approach for multi-oriented text line extraction of
handwritten documents*
Nazih Ouwayed & Abdel Belaïd
Abstract
*Full text PDF
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Original Paper
*A categorization system for handwritten documents*
Thierry Paquet, Laurent Heutte, Guillaume Koch & Clément Chatelain
Abstract
*Full text PDF
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Original Paper
*Recognition and retrieval of mathematical expressions*
Richard Zanibbi & Dorothea Blostein
Abstract
*Full text PDF
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Original Paper
*Off-line handwritten signature detection by analysis of evidence
accumulation*
José L. Esteban, José F. Vélez & Ángel Sánchez
Abstract
*Full text PDF
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*Read the most downloaded articles*
Anyone can access the most downloaded articles of this journal for free.
Click here
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========== * Job Opportunity: Post-doct at University of Nantes ============
*"From segmentation to description and grammatical analysis for
interpretation of handwritten and audio structured documents"*
This work, which is part of the DEPART project funded by the Regional
council of Pays de la Loire, is focused on the interpretation of
mathematical expressions (ME) from online handwritten and audio sources.
The problem of a correct segmentation and of subsequent graph based
descriptions relying on a specific grammar which controls the language
domain is of prime importance. We are interested in extending the
formalism used currently to control 1D (one dimensional) segmentation to
deal with 2D languages + audio stream. In the case of linear textual
languages it is clear how to replace a non-terminal in a sentence by a
corresponding sequence of (non-)terminals. But in the case of graphical
languages, with many possible relationships between language elements,
we need a far more complicated mechanism for (re-)establishing
relationships between the surrounding of a replaced non- terminal and
its replacing (non-)terminals. In addition, the information extracted
from the audio source should be integrated in the global framework. We
will study different strategies to cope with this problem. They will
include CFG approaches as well as Context Dependant Grammar (CDG).
Specifically, graph grammars will be considered and their potential
interest to describe graphical languages such as Mathematical
Expressions. The design of an efficient parsing algorithm will also be
part of this work. The results of this work will be transferred into our
existing ME recognition platform and will participate to the forthcoming
competitions. In addition, the improvement of the grammar based modeling
will allow to address other interesting structured documents.
Location of the post-doct : Ecole polytechnique de l'Université de
Nantes http://web.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/
in the IVC lab : http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/IVC
Duration: 12 months
Period : from 01/01/2013
Qualifications and skills required:
· PhD related to Pattern recognition.
· Good mathematical understanding.
· High motivation for research.
· Capability of working in an autonomous way.
· Good programming skills in either C, C++, Python.
· Good communication skills in English, both in written and oral form.
Applicants should submit:
1) Application letter
2) Curriculum Vitae and Academic Record
3) Letters of Reference (if available)
Contact: send application form with letters of recommendation to
Christian.viard-gaudin@univ-nantes.fr
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========== Call for Dataset Submissions ====================================
We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of
new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to
particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets,
software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting.
Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for
archiving (
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to
contact Dimosthenis Karatzas, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you
might have on the process.
Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Dataset Curator
dimos@cvc.uab.es
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========== Call for Contributions ==========================================
This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information
to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending
a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink .
Such news could be the obvious announcements of conferences and workshops,
job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything
that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of
reading systems.
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